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Pragmatic features in the language of cross-cultural virtual teams: A roundtable discussion of student-to-student discourse in international collaborative project
No full textThis presentation contains some of the findings by the cross-cultural virtual team (CCVT) of the Trans-Atlantic network - made up by John Humbley (University of Paris-Denis Diderot), Matthew Livesey (University of Wisconsin-Stout), Bruce Maylath (North Dakota State University), Birthe Mousten (Aarhus University), Federica Scarpa (University of Trieste), Sonia Vandepitte (University College Ghent) and Lucy Veisblat (University of Paris-Denis Diderot) - during collaborative projects consisting of students' virtual exchanges which they have carried out for many years by drawing on each team member’s expertise in translation and technical communication. In particular, it examines the pragmatic features of the communication between CCVT members which have given rise to the emergence of a language for the specific purpose of collaboration. In addition, it provides methods for analyzing and teaching this language use among CCVT members
Interactivities Between Professional Translators and Professional Communicators: What Translators Would Like Communicators to Know
No full textThis tutorial is designed to acquaint professional communicators with the challenges that professional translators face when localizing the texts that communicators send them for translation. The presenters will engage participants in activities that will demonstrate terminology management, notional equivalence, culturally bound references, and revising and reviewing
Field Convergence between Technical Writers and Technical Translators: Consequences for Training Institutions
No full textAs translation of technical documents continues to grow rapidly and translation becomes more automated, the roles of professional communicators and translators appear to be converging. This article updates preliminary findings first presented at the 2008 International Professional Communication Conference in Montreal. It analyzes trends revealed from recent surveys and recommends follow-up research to determine if the trends may continue and become entrenched. The authors conclude with recommendations for academic programs interested in adjusting to the trends
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Experimental dataset: stereo-DIC experiment on uniaxially loaded, S-Shaped, high density polyethylene test sample
No full textStereo-DIC experiments were performed on uniaxially loaded, s-shaped, high-density polyethylene test sample. 100 stationary images of unloaded test sample were taken for evaluation of DIC noise floor. Stereo calibration image dataset, involving a calibration target with rectangular grid (12 by 9 and pitch of 10 mm), is also made available. Tensile load from the test bench load-cell sampled at each moment an image is captured is available.</span
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Fostering audience awareness and iterative collaboration for the creation of promotional texts: An online trans-cultural writing project between theory and practice
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